Weird cases: 50 years for pork ribs theft

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Saint Augustine observed that “punishment is justice for the unjust.” Some
convicted people, though, get more justice than others. In Waco, Texas, a
man convicted of stealing a rack of ribs has just been sent to prison for 50
years.

Willie Smith Ward was convicted and sentenced on robbery charges. His theft of
the $35 rack of pork ribs from a grocery turned into the more serious charge
of robbery (theft with violence or the threat of violence) after he told a
store employee who tried to stop him that he had a knife.